PENTECOST RETREAT 2022- Sold Out
PENTECOST RETREAT- This Event is Sold Out Friday, June 3 – Sunday, June 5, 2022 This preached retreat is for oblates of St. Andrew's Abbey or anyone interested in Benedictine […]
CARING FOR OUR COMMON HOME 2022
CARING FOR OUR COMMON HOME Friday, June 10 – Sunday, June 12, 2022 This workshop will center on the issues and implications of ecological and climate change. It will look […]
DISCERNMENT IN DAILY LIFE 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CADiscernment is an essential theme in the spiritual life. As we progress through our life, we constantly need to make practical decisions within the context of our values. These values […]
ICONOGRAPHY WORKSHOP 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CAICONOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Monday, June 27 – Sunday, July 3, 2022 This intensive icon painting workshop will provide an opportunity to experience the process of icon painting. Patricipants will learn traditional […]
BENEDICTINE SPIRITUALITY: St. Benedict’s Teaching on Humility 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CAThis retreat is for oblates and those interested in Benedictine monastic spirituality. This year's focus will be on the virtue and the practice of humility in one's daily life, utilizing […]
READING & PRAYING THE SACRED SCRIPTURES 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CAIn this workshop we will both study the ancient history, and practice together the monastic art of lectio divina, reflecting on its value as a model of spiritual progress.
MYSTICISM OF TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CATRANSFORMATION FOR A NEW CREATION Monday, July 18– Friday, July 22, 2022 This retreat will consider the 5 "circles of mysticism" through which Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit and […]
FAITH & THE HUMAN CONDITION 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CAAdrienne von Speyr was a Swiss convert to the Catholic faith. She was a medical doctor, a wife, mother, mystic, and author of over sixty books on spirituality and theology. […]
SUMMER DANCE WORKSHOP: Dancing the New Season of Life 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CASUMMER DANCE WORKSHOP: Dancing the New Season of Life 2022 Thursday, July 28 – Sunday, July 31, 2022 Come and choreograph movements, write poems, sing music and build stories for […]
HEALING OUR WOUNDS: Forgiveness in the Spiritual Life 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CAWe give them, we suffer them, our bodies hold on to them for years: Wounds. We can imprison ourselves in them and wither emotionally far too long without the transforming […]
“THE LEAPING BLAZE OF CHARIT”: Bernard of Clairvaux as Spiritual Guide 2022
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CAIn Dante's Paradise his final steps toward a vision of the Holy Trinity are guided by the twelfth-century Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153). Dante assures us that Bernard […]
IN THE SPIRIT OF AA: A Twelve-Step Retreat
Saint Andrew's Abbey 31001 N. Valyermo Road, Valyermo, CASpend a weekend getting back to the key that unlocks the 12-Steps for those who follow them. We will take slightly different approach to these conventional steps and traditions. Recovery […]
Learn more about the types of retreats we offer





The Abbey
Ceramics
Our ceramics represent a tradition of Beneditine craftsmanship, and help support the community of Saint Andrew’s Abbey.